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Sunday, October 4, 2009 at 3 pm
Saint Saëns Quartet No. 1
Shostakovich Quartet No. 7
Saint Saëns Quartet No. 2
Sunday, November 15, 2009 at 3 pm
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Turina La Oración del Torero, Op.34
Bruckner String Quartet
Bruckner Intermezzo for String Quintet
Mendelssohn String Quintet No. 2
Guillermo Figueroa, guest violist
Sunday, February 7, 2010 at 3 pm
Haydn Quartet, Op. 77, No. 1
Rachmaninoff Quartet No. 1
Fritz Kreisler Quartet
Sunday, April 11, 2010 at 3 pm
Philip Glass Quartet No. 2
Efrem Zimbalist Quartet
César Franck Quartet
All concerts begin at 3:00 p.m. in the Helen Bader Concert Hall in the Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, 2419 East Kenwood Boulevard. Click here for a campus map.
The Fine Arts Quartet series is supported in part by a gift from Lubar Family Foundation, The Brico Fund, Katharine and Sandy Mallin and other generous individuals.
Program Details
Sunday, November 15, 2009 at 3 pm
Helen Bader Concert Hall
Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts,
2419 East Kenwood Boulevard.
Program Notes
La Oracién del Torero, Op.34 (1925)
Joaquin Turina (1882-1949)
String Quartet in C Minor (1862)
Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
Allegro moderato
Andante
Scherzo: Presto
Rondo: Schnell
Intermezzo (for String Quintet) in D Minor, WAB 113
Anton Bruckner(1824-1896)
Guillermo Figueroa, guest violist
-- Intermission --
String Quintet No.2 in B Flat Major, Op.87 (1845)
Felix Mendelssohn(1809-1847)
Allegro vivace
Andante scherzando
Adagio e lento
Allegro molto vivace
Guillermo Figueroa, guest violist
About the Guest Artists
Guillermo Figueroa
www.guillermofigueroa.com
Guillermo Figueroa is Music Director of both the New Mexico Symphony and the Music in the Mountains Festival in Colorado as well as Principal Guest Conductor of the Puerto Rico Symphony, with whom he performed to critical acclaim at Carnegie Hall in 2003, the Kennedy Center in 2004 and Spain in 2005.
As a Guest Conductor in the US he has appeared with the orchestras of New Jersey, Memphis, Phoenix, Colorado, Berkeley, Xalapa, Tucson, Santa Fe, Toledo, Fairfax, San Jose, Juilliard Orchestra and the New York City Ballet at Lincoln Center.
His international appearances include the Iceland Symphony, the Baltic Philharmonic in Poland, Orquesta del Teatro Argentino in La Plata (Buenos Aires), the Orquesta de Cordoba in Spain and the Orquesta Sinfonica de Chile.
Mr. Figueroa has collaborated with many of the leading artists of our time, including Itzhak Perlman, YoYo Ma, Hilary Hahn, Placido Domingo, Joshua Bell, Olga Kern, Janos Starker, James Galway, Midori, Horacio Gutierrez, the Emerson String Quartet, Ben Hepner, Rachel Barton Pine, Pepe and Angel Romero, Elmar Oliveira, Vadim Gluzman and Arnaldo Cohen.
A Berlioz specialist, he created the most comprehensive Berlioz Festival in the US in 2003 for the composer's Bicentennial. Mr. Figueroa has conducted the premieres of works by important composers, such as Roberto Sierra, Ernesto Cordero and Miguel del Aguila. An advocate for new music, Mr. Figueroa and the NMSO won an Award for Adventurous Programming from the League of American Orchestras in 2007.
A renowned violinist as well, Figueroa was Concertmaster of the New York City Ballet, and a Founding Member and Concertmaster of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, making over fifty recordings for Deutsche Grammophon.
Figueroa has given the world premieres of four violin concertos written for him: in 1995 the Concertino by Mario Davidovsky, at Carnegie Hall with Orpheus; in 2007 the Double Concerto by Harold Farberman, with the American Symphony at Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center; in 2008 the Violin Concerto by Miguel del Aguila, commissioned by Figueroa and the NMSO and in 2009 Insula, Suite Concertante, by Ernesto Cordero with the Solisti di Zagreb in Zagreb.
He is a regular performer at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Music in the Vineyards in California, and Music from Angel Fire.
Figueroa has recorded the Three Violin Sonatas by Bartok for the Eroica Classical label, with pianist Robert Koenig, and an album of virtuoso violin music by for the NMSO label, with pianist Ivonne Figueroa.
Mr. Figueroa studied with his father and uncle at the Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico. At the Juilliard School his teachers were Oscar Shumsky and Felix Galimir. His conducing studies were with Harold Farberman in New York.
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